Weekly Projects - 2025

Jan 7 (Week 1)

Data: Bring your own data, NCES Data on Student and Teacher Demographics

Question: How does student and teacher racial demographic characters compare in US states?

Approach: Made a dot-plot.

Jan 28 (Week 4)

Data: Water Insecurity

Question: How does county-level percentage of plumbing access vary across the state with most and least plumbing access?

Approach: Created two state-maps with county-level percentages for plumbing access.

Feb 4 (Week 5)

Data: Donuts, Data, and D’oh - A Deep Dive into The Simpsons

Question: What is the proportion of lines by gender across episodes?

Approach: Created a proportional bar chart.

March 4 (Week 9)

Data: Long Beach Animal Shelter

Question: What is the distribution of outcome types by intake condition?

Approach: Created a a waffle plot.

Acknowledgment: I took inspiration and code from this plot in the R Graph Gallery by Muhammad Azhar.

March 11 (Week 10)

Data: Pixar Data

Question: What is the difference in Pixar film rankings by different review aggregators?

Approach: Created a series of line plots, highlighting most-agreed and most-disagreed rankings.